ART Habens
Joshua Healey Lapena
of world we live in . What is being consumed and what is in control are important in the relation of its space and time ; two spaces and the same time . The illusion of depth , is like that of the same space for the same time , but one is a representation while the other is impossible . That objects appear to float in my paintings contradicts the idea of gravity . Their conception can be closer or further from their experience , but they are never in a duality . In the work with the cave , the engine has an even greater presence as the light on the water is made white . Some of the interior is reflected , but the thoughts of the spatial relations are suspended . Each area of the painting takes on a meaning of its own ; like paintings within paintings , I like to get lost in the detail and somehow the overall composition comes together . Johnathan Wateridge is another painter who has affected the way I think about the environment , but he sets them up before painting them in oil . The context of what he is doing is different .
In 1984 , H . G . Wells describes the language of doublethink , which I find particularly interesting . I think the abstract being representational or not representational is applicable to this concept . Doublethink is the process of deriving contradictions , like freedom is slavery , war is piece etc . from their objective truth . In Jung ’ s psychoanalysis , I presume they cannot be eliminated , as both depend on the relation of the consciousness to the unconsciousness . Negation is used to find a solution to the trauma created by doublethink . That is , nature as represented includes what is human made , but its relation to that which is not human made is about difference and not
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